Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-14
Funeral of the Anarchists.

i he funeral OF auR"S' Sf'SS' N''
Parsons. George Engel, Adolph F'schor and
Louis Lingg, the anarchists, toak place at
Chicago Yesterday. By order CT the mayor
no banners we're allowed to be carried in the
PROCESSION, and no music except dirges was
nermitted. 1t was also stipulated that the
bodies should be taken directly from the re-
snectiye homes of the deceased to the place
Of burial, which was some miles from the
civ. Probably half q million people wit
messed the public preparations for the luce
raj. Ten thousand were present In the
emptiest graveyard adjacent to Chicago
when the corpses were buried. Muttered
curses and q cry of throttle the law" &C
compapied the parting words SPOKEN over
the five lifeees bodies. II was almost 10 q
second the exact time when, As hours be-
fore. the scalold drop fell with August Spies
and his comrades, that the blackest of the
henrses drew up at the door of his relatives.
Moro peculiar still was the fact that the
hearse was Just ready TO s!art at the precise
mcment corresponding to the announcement
at the galows that Spies had ceased to
breathe. Calmly seated in the list carriage,
without one eign of mourning in herapparei
or 8 single trace OF griefi in her set face, was
)ies's proxy bride.
A noticeable feature of the procession was
the showing made by the two local assem-
bies Of the knights of labor, composed who'll
" of women. Each one ofthese was atlame
with red scarlet in their hats bows ofcrm.
son ct their thfoats and long steamers OF
crimson from their shoulders.
| At least five out of every ten men display
cd the colors Of the commune in one form
or another. Some OF than had red bows or
badges pinned upon their breasts and I'D
bons in their bottonholes others wore red
neck,ies or displayed the ends of red hand
kerchiefs from the breast pockets oil their
coats Thousands had heavy crepe upon
| their hats or armleis of the same material.
Many more wore badges of the French trl
color. Capt Black, counsel for the anarch-
ists told his hearers that they bad come TO
do honor 10 the soldiers and martyrs to
Truth. They had lost their lives IN her
service aud they were numbered with those
cgu38. Robert Ritzel, editor OF Der Arme
Tsgefsl spoke in German. He said:
~ came with tie intention TO make
terrible accusation. Not an accusation
against The horde Of church goers, VINO in
their self-iighteousness to day rejoice in loud
tones that the five men whose remains we
conssn TO the duet are dead not against
the hangman of this county, who is called
sheriff by the blutes in human disguise, who
clnmor for The life and bleed Of the poor; not
against the jury, who obeycd the mandate OF
the brutes, but against the working men, be
cause they stood calmly By when FIVE Of
their best men were ioully ana brutally
murdered. in the sgonies CT death these
five men expected that the heinous crime
| committed against them would be avenged
in streams Of blood, and they had right to
expect it. Lirgg. the brave, the heroic, the
manly, WIS right when he said that self.
preservation in these day5 is a crime. Here,
| ia the presence of these murdered men,
swear to it that you will organize TO aveDge
this crime--to visit it upon those who hate
you"
ave swear it," came the cullen growl
from many. II WAS not possible to identity
any one in the darkness.
1--WE do affirm" continued the speaker,
sosmnly, that we will have blood. We do
not grieve over these men, who are dead,
but We do grieve that in this century MUIR
der most foul can be committed under the
guise of authority and law. we grieve at
ourselves that we Gid net rise 10 our might
and prevent this crime. Think of the vow
you have just made. Do not tremble. Be
men Night is falling fast aud shall close.
In this darlieping hour think CT the dark,
ness and BORROW which society has brought
over those We love. We have now suffered
long enough. Now let us bitterly hate